Picture-mounting page or sheet.



N0.v846,099. PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

. G. F. ENGSTROM.

PICTURE MOUNTING PAGE OR SHEET.

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PICTURE-MOUNTING PAGE OR SHEET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 2'7, 1906.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Serial No- 332,144.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CI-rARLEs F. ENGSTROM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at St. Charles, in the county of Kane and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture-MountingPages or Sheets, of which the following is a specificatron.

My invention relates to improvements in picture-mounting page or sheetand is fully described and explained in this specification and shown inthe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a bookopened and showing two diflerent forms of my improved pages or sheets.Fig. 2 is an elevation of one of the mounting devices removed I from thepage or sheet, said mounting device being of the form shown at the lefthand of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a similar elevation of the top of mountingdevice shown at the right hand of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A is a page upon which it is desired to mountpictures. This page will ordinarily be a page bound in a book or album;but obviously the invention can be embodied in single sheets as well asin complete books. Upon this page are secured sheets B, preferably ofheavy paper, each of the sheets being of the form shown in Fig. 2, thesame comprising a central rectangular blank of substantially the sizeand shape of the picture or other object which it is desired to mountupon the page and each being provided at its four corners withdiagonally-extending flaps 6. Before the sheetB is mounted upon the pageA each of the flaps b is folded along the line joining it to therectangular blank B-i. e., along the dotted line b, Fig. 2, in front ofthe body of the blank B, so as to form a diagonally-disposedcorner-strip, such as is shown in Fig. 1. Thereupon the end of the flapb is folded along the dotted line b behind the body of the blank B andpasted or otherwise secured in place. At the upper right-hand corner ofFig. 2 one of the flaps is shown folded into position, and the portionof it which lies behind the body of the blank B is indicated by dottedlines.

When it is desired to mount a picture upon my improved page, the cornersthereof are placed under the edges of the flaps I), thus giving thepicture a secure mounting.

As a modification of the form illustrated at the left-hand side of Fig.1 I provide sheets, as shown at the right-hand side thereof, the body ofeach mounting-sheet being made in the form of a Greek cross and theflaps b being provided at each of the eight corners of the cross, asillustrated in Fig. 3, the same being folded into place, as already setforth. By these means a mounting is secured in which a picture can beheld either in a Vertical or horizontal position, as desired.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of thisconstruction without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I donot intend, therefore, to limit myself to the specific form herein shownand described.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Amounting-sheet in the form of a Greek cross having diagonally-disposedstrips of material extending across the corners of the mounting-sheetwhereby a picture or the like can be secured in the mounting-sheet in avertical or horizontal position.

2. A mounting-sheet having diagonal flaps integral therewith andextending therefrom at the corners, said flaps being adapted to befolded across the corners of the mounting sheet and turned down betweenthe sheet and page to which the sheet is-adapted to be secured.

3. A mounting-sheet in the form of a Greek cross, havingdiagonally-disposed flaps integral with said mounting-sheet andextending from the corners thereof, said flaps being adapted to befolded across the corners of the mounting-sheet and turned down betweenthe sheet and the page to which the sheet is adapted to be secured.

In witness whereof I have signed the above applicationfor LettersPatent, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this22d day of August, A. D. 1906.

CHARLES F. ENGSTROM.

Witnesses:

L. HEISLAR, J. H. LANDES.

